Cleopatra (1970 film)

Cleopatra

Japanese VHS cover for Osamu Tezuka's "Cleopatra".
Japanese クレオパトラ
Hepburn Kureopatora
Directed by Osamu Tezuka
Eiichi Yamamoto
Produced by Osamu Tezuka
Yasuhiko Yoneyama
Written by Shigemi Satoyoshi
Starring Chinatsu Nakayama
Music by Isao Tomita
Cinematography Tsuyoshi Honda
Distributed by Nippon Herald Movies
Release dates
  • September 15, 1970 (1970-09-15)
Running time
 112 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese

Cleopatra (クレオパトラ Kureopatora) is a 1970 Japanese anime film directed by Osamu Tezuka and Eiichi Yamamoto. The film was a commercial failure.

In 1972, Mushi Productions, who made the film, accepted a deal with Xanadu Productions, a small company, to release an English-dubbed version in the United States to try to save themselves from bankruptcy. When it was released in the United States, Xanadu changed the title to Cleopatra: Queen of Sex and released it with a self-applied X-rating on April 24, 1972. It was advertised as the first X-rated pornographic animated movie in the United States. However, Fritz the Cat came out with its X-rating from the MPAA before it on April 18, 1972.

The English version and the original version were not received well by critics and audiences due to it failing as a pornographic movie and many other reasons.

Cleopatra was not submitted to the MPAA, and may not have received an X-rating if it had been. The English dub and subtitled version is said to be lost. DVDs of the film do exist.[1]

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References

  1. ↑ Michael Barrier. "The Filming of Fritz the Cat". Funnyworld, Nos. 14 and 15. Retrieved 2007-01-15.

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